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Definition of Monsignori
1. monsignor [n] - See also: monsignor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monsignori
Literary usage of Monsignori
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Dictionary of Painters: Containing Memoirs of the Lives and Works by Matthew Pilkington (1829)
"Monsignori copied animals with astonishing accuracy, and ex- ceiled in perspective.
... Monsignori (GIROLAMO), was born at Verona about the year 1460. ..."
2. Historical, Literary, and Artistic Travels in Italy: A Complete and by Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (1839)
"In the sacristy, the Virgin and infant Jesus, a fresco by Gerónimo Monsignori,
is a very graceful work ; and a une statue of the Virgin addolorata was ..."
3. The Chair of Peter, Or the Papacy Considered in Its Institution, Development by John Nicholas Murphy (1886)
"The Monsignori Masters of the Pontifical Ceremonies have place in this congregation.
It also comprises several Prelates, and members of religious orders, ..."
4. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress edited by Francis Clement Kelley (1909)
"Their robes were the same as those of the monsignori, but upon their breasts
gleamed the insignia of their office, the pectoral cross. ..."
5. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects of the Order of S by Vincenzo Fortunato Marchese (1852)
"Father Orlandi, in his " Pictorial Alphabet," represents Fra Giocondo to have
been the brother of Francesco Monsignori, the Veronese painter, ..."
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